In Pasadena this week is the Awaken Conference that Erwin McManus and the Mosaic Alliance is hosting. I’ve never been to a conference by the Mosaic gang, aka The Origin Project. I hope to drop in on Tuesday and/or Wednesday. I haven’t seen a whole lot of blog chatter on this, surprisingly, so maybe it’s […]

You know a cuisine is going mainstream when it breaks into the fast casual and/or fast food restaurant category.
I walked by a restaurant a coupla hours ago called The Flame Broiler (with “a healthy choice” in small print), and I had to go in and grab a menu, thinking to myself, how in the […]

if you’re curious like me (or, have a StrengthsFinder theme of INPUT, like me), I’ve wanted to know what really happened behind the scenes, and how this whole emergent church thing blossomed, and it was something years in the making, mostly unintentional, from what I gather. And it’s become a bigger thing than I’d ever […]

You may already infer that the absence of politics here, even amidst a very excitingly dramatic election year, that I am politically ambivalent. But, I do vote.
I got this email recently from a guy named David Wetzell, who is a professor of Economics, with a Master’s in Theological Studies and a former blogger at […]

It is indeed a rare occasion to get Eugene Cho and Gideon Tsang in the same room, and this recent Asian American Leadership Conference pulled it off. Both of them are being the church in a new way within their local context, often asking the question: “What would it look like…” That workshop was titled:
“Emerging […]